When you look at a law called the Local Government Act 1974, you will see a part called section 726. This section is about repeals, revocation, and savings, but it is no longer in use. You can find out what happened to it by looking at the Local Government Act 2002, where section 266 says that section 726 was repealed on 1 July 2003, and you can read more about this by following the link to section 266 of the Local Government Act 2002. You can see that the Local Government Act 2002 changed the Local Government Act 1974. The change happened on 1 July 2003.